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Common Purpose has redefined the meaning of 'charity'

John Walker made this Freedom of Information request to Charity Commission for England and Wales

The request was successful.

From: John Walker

21 September 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

By "Common Purpose", I mean the "educational charity" of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org

Common Purpose has redefined the meaning of 'charity'.

Although Common Purpose calls itself an 'educational charity', it
is not the poor and disadvantaged who benefit.

Instead, the main beneficiaries are the rich and powerful.

Please supply copies of all documents you have relating to Common
Purpose and also please explain why Common Purpose is allowed to
operate as a charity.

Yours faithfully,

John Walker

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Christopher left an annotation ( 1 October 2008)

Be careful (or patient!); you already have an very similar outstanding request with the Charity Commission, and someone else has filed an almost word-for-word copy of that request.

Authorities are not obliged to comply with "vexatious or repeated" requests, so you could (but hopefully not) find that both requests get rejected.

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Francis Irving left an annotation ( 8 November 2008)

John Walker has written to us to say that the query has been answered elsewhere, and asked me to change it to successful state. I'll ask him to post an annotation saying where the answer is.

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John Walker left an annotation ( 8 November 2008)

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